In 2019, as Bitcoin began recovering from its 2018 lows, the appetite to accumulate BTC was fierce. The idea of hitting that 10,000 manually was a pipe dream (statistically improbable). Consequently, the search for a script—a snippet of code that could automate the process or, ideally, manipulate the outcome to always land on 10,000—became a viral pastime.

The script would change the HTML of the webpage to show a roll of 10,000 and a massive balance, but no actual Bitcoin was added to the account on the server side.